A Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday, shattering windows and forcing lawmakers to flee, as a second district in two days fell to the Islamist group in the north. Violence has spiraled in Afghanistan since the departure of most...

Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. "Al-Shabab killed eight of my colleagues and took three of our cars," Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told...

The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. "We will pre-position significant equipment," the...

Four Westerners who posed naked on Malaysia's highest peak were Friday sentenced to three days in jail and fined for obscene behavior in a public place, news reports said. The four were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30. A local official has said...